So before we evolved into a fully realized rock band, we decided to just capture the birth of the band and do an acoustic album.MENDELSON: Was it an awkward transition in your relationship to start making music together, or was it something that came naturally?Their voices often overlap as they talk, with bursts of shared laughter."We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern," Muhl says of their mission."We don't want to be purely a retro re-creationist band — there's a lot of those right now.Beginning with the brooding "Too Deep," it's music with roots in both swirling, late-'60s pop and modern indie rock."We basically just want to rock out," says Muhl, 26, of the band, which performs Saturday at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles.At the moment, the duo are on a breezy patio overlooking downtown Austin, dressed in stylish layers: Lennon bearded in a light brown suit and a matching wide-brim hat, and Muhl in fringed suede over a T-shirt for the '80s hair-metal band Slaughter."I don't think I had any sense of it at the time — because it was just my mother's friends, you know?Charlotte Kemp Muhl (born August 17, 1987) is an American model, singer, and musician from Atlanta, Georgia.

Charlotte Kemp Muhl is an American model, singer, and musician who became the youngest person to grace the cover of Harper's and Queens in Britain when she was only 16 years old.

“I was very young and naïve, and I was thrown to the sharks,” he says.

“People treated it as if I was coming out as a pop star.

“I had bodyguards; I was followed home from school.

I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be a musician.